The incomparable king of the episode is what critics of the theater and film actor Grigory Spiegel called their time. However, in the memory of the audience, he remained a bright, extraordinary and gifted personality.
Far start
Honored Artist of Russia Grigory Oyzerovich Shpigel was born July 24, 1914 in the family of a small entrepreneur. Parents at that time lived in the famous city of Samara. My father worked in an artel producing textile materials. Mother kept housekeeping.
Gregory studied well at school. Actively participated in amateur performances. He sang pioneer songs in his sonorous voice. His favorite subjects were literature and biology. In 1929, the Spiegel family moved to Leningrad. Father got a job at the Lenbytkraska factory. A year later, his son came here when he was sixteen years old. The future actor worked here for almost five years and acquired the specialty of a pleater. He saved up some money and in 1935 left for the capital to enroll in an acting school at Mosfilm.
Professional activity
About three years before the war, Spiegel began to be invited to film. It is important to note that Gregory had an extremely high voice - tenor-altino. This physiological feature largely determined the direction of his work. The pepper list of the characters that he had to play includes effeminate intellectuals, crooks, foreigners, Wehrmacht officers. Often, viewers found it difficult to determine who was speaking - man or woman. Gregory used his abilities when he had to play a friend on the phone.
Having received a specialized education, Spiegel came to work in the theater studio of a film actor and did not take his work book until his death. He did not get the main roles very often, but he had to play in the episodes regularly. In the famous comedy "The Diamond Arm", Grigory Oyzerovich played a cameo role. He played so convincingly that the boys for a long time copied his conversation on Abracadabra after watching the picture.
